Idiom(s): at someone's doorstep AND on someone's doorstep
Theme: RESPONSIBILITY
in someone's care; as someone's responsibility. • Why do you always have to lay your problems at my doorstep? • I shall put this issue on someone else's doorstep. • I don't want it on my doorstep.
at one's door|at one's doorstep|door|doorstep
adv. phr. 1. Very close; very near where you live or work. Johnny is very lucky because there's a swimming pool right at his doorstep.Mr. Green can get to work in only a few minutes because the subway is at his door. 2. See: LAY AT ONE'S DOOR.
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v. phr., literary To blame (something) on a person. The failure of the plan was laid at his door. Compare: LAY TO1.
lay the blame at one's door|blame|door|lay|lay the
v. phr. To say that another person or group is responsible for one's own failure. The angry coach laid the blame at the door of the players when our college lost the basketball game.
at one's door
at one's door Also, on one's doorstep. Very nearby, as in The bus stop was practically on our doorstep, or The Mexican currency crisis is literally at our door. [Early 1900s] Also see lay at someone's door.
at (one's) door
1. Literally, alfresco one's door. I'm at your aperture appropriate now—where are you?2. By extension, one's responsibility. That affair is at the badge commissioner's aperture now.I consistently appoint acclaimed contractors for my aggregation because I don't appetite complaints of base architecture at my door.3. Very abutting to one's location, abnormally of an exceptionable affair that is encroaching. We acclimated to anticipate of it as a battle on the frontier, but the war is now at our door.This accomplished breadth acclimated to be rural, but with aggressive development, the suburbs are at our door.Learn more: door
at one's door
Also, on one's doorstep. Very nearby, as in The bus stop was about on our doorstep, or The Mexican bill crisis is actually at our door. [Early 1900s] Also see lay at someone's door. Learn more: doorLearn more:
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